Uli Plank wrote:Please let us have different waveform monitoring for broadcast range and full range. The current situation is confusing.

+1 on that - and it goes without saying that for any given clip the respective Full or Video/Broadcast range scope set should be auto-selected according to the set Data Level, whether Auto or manually assigned.

Can we have an interface to upload crash reports. To help identify particular drivers, or system configurations that give people problems.

For example, It would be nice to pull up all crash reports for Late 2013 iMacs for Resolve version 12.5. It would be nice to compare and contrast the issues. It would also be nice if this interface transformed the gobbledygook into user-friendly information.

Background rendering - The engine is essentially there for this since smart cache works as it does it just needs to be an option on the Deliver tab. This would be so helpful on jobs where you are extremely pressed for time as you can get on with importing and applying settings & metadata to the next incoming mag whilst the previous one is rendering. The option to turn it on or off will be appreciated by those who use the render stage as a final QC watching it as it goes. A pause and resume function on the render queue would also be very handy as would the ability to then re-order the items in the queue to prioritise something near the end of the queue that someone suddenly needs immediately rather then later...

Better Metadata importing / mapping Currently the clip metadata from many key high end cameras in common use is not fully imported or mapped to useful metadata fields. Arri Alexa being a prime example. I noticed fps listed without a decimal space so 24.000 fps reads as 24000! Other useful fields such as lens info just don't seem to be mapped at all. Please Blackmagic give a little love to this, it really should be very little work to build a more comprehensive table of mappings. A custom field mapping interface would also be great further down the line for csv's and ALE's and data coming from other sources than the pre-mapped cameras.

More advanced Variables On a similar theme it would be great to be able to select a limited range of characters from a variable for burn in's, file naming and metadata entry. Also to be able to apply calculations and append series. So for instance I want to use the last four characters of the file name A001C003_170326_B6FC to generate the unique camera ID field I could enter %FileName[e,1,4] with e setting it to count from the end, starting at character 1, giving me 4 digits. Similarly something like %NumSeq[4,1,13] would when applied to a number of selected clips give them a number sequence based on the current sorting in the media pool; [4 characters long, incrementing by 1, starting at 13]. And say I want to change a sequence of numbers by adding 1 to them or dividing them by a number, I'd love to have options to apply to the variables to do that.

Custom mappings in Third Party control surfaces Sure you have just released the new micro and mini panels, and they are pretty lovely, but as D.I.Ts we have to use a wide range of software like Livegrade and others and we can't use those panels for that - you have provided no SDK. We also need to keep our workstations portable and lightweight and can't easily afford to accommodate more than one panel. Our only option is to use widely supported 3rd party control panels. Give us a break and let us map them or at least update the mappings to reflect some of the thought that has been put into the micro and mini panels. Please!

LUT preview multi view This has been mentioned already I believe, but it would be great to be able to see and preview a whole bunch of LUTs at once in a grid in the viewer applied to the footage a bit like you can with a split screen of gallery grades. I have gone through folders of LUTs applying them one by one and saving stills then using the split screen/gallery grades feature to get this effect in the past but that is hugely laborious. Some way of automating it would be great - even if it's just importing a folder of LUTs to create a still gallery like you can with CDL's. Add to this then being able to click on certain screens from that split to select just those, hit a key to drill down to just those in the split, then do that again so you can drill down and choose one. It should also highlight the stills in the gallery as you select and drill down so you can see the names and which ones are selected. This would be very helpful in making a quick selection from a lot of options when standing there with the DoP on set during the few short seconds they have to come and look on a 1 day commercial shoot, and would be great with any type of gallery still. It would also be great to have this work when in Resolve Live mode so we can do it on a live image before we turn over....

Adding to this list a couple of tiny and easy to implement handy extras (I know this is way too late now for anything coming in time for NAB 2017 but fingers crossed we see these some time soon). These mainly stem from the fact that it is fairly common practise when processing media on set and transcoding for offline to create a timeline per camera roll/card. This keeps things flowing and manageable but after a long day or down the line on a feature shoot you end up with tons of timelines!

Ability to export multiple selected timelines as AAF's from the media or Edit page in one go. The current behaviour here seems to be either export the current timeline or right click and you can export the timeline you right clicked on but if you select multiple timelines and right click it only exports the one you right clicked.

Type to search or some other shortcut when selecting timelines from the drop down list above the viewer window Currently when navigating between timelines using this drop down having to scroll up and down pages worth of timeline per mag timelines when you are deep in to feature film can be a time consuming pain. Yes, you can go to the edit page, open the media pool and search there, find it and navigate back to the colour page, but extra options and more direct ways never hurt anybody. My proposal is that when the dropdown timeline list is open; typing performs an instant search helping you find your timeline fast.

Both the above are little UI tweaks and are in response to ways of using the existing feature set to manage workflows in ways that perhaps weren't originally envisioned or intended, perhaps others have developed better ways of leveraging the existing feature sets for these tasks or maybe a mode of working and new feature set could be devised that specifically aim to solve the workflow requirements of on set data processing more directly. Hopefully some of my On Set brethren will see this and chime in...

Is there a way so far to make a group dedicated to PTZR sizing in the color tab ? Say I have a multicam done, involving clips from a same cam that need to be a bit zoomed + left pan (y): 1/ can make groups in the Edit tab, I mean groups I can find again in the color tab as true groups ? 2/ I tried to group clips in the color tab > switched to pre-group menu > tried input sizing, node sizing etc... I didn't reach my goal to see these ptzr applied on every clips of the group, don't remember why but I had to go back to edit page and select these very clips and do that again in the inspector (by pasting attributes)... What did I miss ? Or is it doable to add this ?

- Multicam part : adding a empty track when "opened in timeline", then closing* back to the viewer and chosing multicam view made it crash/quit Resolve. To be checked...

- BTW : page 370 of the manual (I had to re-read again), you can read about stacked clips open after chosing "open in timeline" :

"When you’ve finished altering the contents of the multicam clip, you can close it using the path control at the bottom left-hand corner of the Timeline. Click the name of the edited timeline to go back, in preparation for the next steps."I'm pretty sure nothing will happen if you don't double-click it

- Also, resizing the angle viewer and the right viewer (i.e. to give greater room for angles viewer) by trying to select and slide the border between them - still in multicam situation - is not possible, because of the blade mouse interfering : we have to go back from multicam to source view under the viewer, then do it as needed, then re-select multicam view to see angles again...One basic solution would be to only see the blade appear when you hover (the mouse is right over it) an angle in the viewer, not when elsewhere over the viewer where an arrow mouse should remain. If not, dropping the blade in favour of keeping an arrow mouse everywhere would be highly appreciated by anyone who cuts hours and hours of multicam clips

Would like to see clip numbers on the edit page as well as the color page, also would be great to be able to jump to the clips by typing in the number followed by a hotkey. Would be really great if there was an option to retain numbering if a clip was inserted or removed, e.a. new clips inserted at position 109 would become 108.1 for example, that way the would retain there number. Also being able to Data Burn the clip number in would be great.

QuentinBrown wrote:Type to search or some other shortcut when selecting timelines from the drop down list above the viewer window Currently when navigating between timelines using this drop down having to scroll up and down pages worth of timeline per mag timelines when you are deep in to feature film can be a time consuming pain.

Two observations:

1) there are panels that have "next timeline" function buttons, including the Tangent Elements (and I believe the big daVinci Control Surface). It's not in the Mini at the moment.

2) When I have a feature that starts to sprawl out of control, I generally create a folder and split the feature up into multiple sessions, including a current session with just the version we're working on at this very moment. That way, at most we're only going to have (maybe) 6 timelines, assuming it's a standard 2-hour film consisting of 6 x 20-minute timelines.

If I need "auxiliary" timelines for VFX or quickie viewing copies or something like that, I generally run in Dynamic Project Switching and flip back and forth if necessary.

I don't think it's a good practice to have tons and tons of timelines in a single project, but I concede that sometimes it can get very hairy, particularly with variations on commercials and trailers and short material like that. For features, I think there's a way to manage the process in a more straightforward way.

We do have that - overwrite is default, and insert is shift-crtl/cmd (win/mac) or alt-ctrl/cmd. Having said that, I would prefer just alt as it's fiddly to hold two modifiers for such a regular editing function.

Peter Chamberlain wrote:How did u get to have a page deep of timelines. Have u made one for each mag?

Peter, just an observation that from the editing side of things many editors follow a workflow that involves multiple timelines and even just having "clear list" would be helpful, but I +1 for a searchable mechanism too.

View>Bypass all grades (shift-D) is greyed out on the Edit page. Is there a reason for this? This is very useful when editing something for example that has gone to the client with a grade and noise reduction and then you need to do editing changes and need smooth playback back. Could shift-D be made to work on the edit page? (No biggie to go into Color page and back, but every 0.001% improvement helps make DR the best )

Nick Lear wrote:View>Bypass all grades (shift-D) is greyed out on the Edit page. Is there a reason for this? This is very useful when editing something for example that has gone to the client with a grade and noise reduction and then you need to do changes and need smooth playback back. Could shift-D be made to work on the edit page? (No biggie to go into Color page and back, but every 0.001% improvement helps make DR the best )

Being able to change the order of OFX or VST plugins in the Inspector, by dragging them. The only alternative (now) appears to be deleting and then reapplying them. Of course this assumes that the order of appearance is the order in which they're applied....

For the mouse scroll wheel to adjust every slider or box on the Color page just by hovering over it and then scrolling, without having to click it first, which easily changes the value. Some things already work like this - like bars and wheels e.g. Primaries Wheels or the Blur bars, but the sliders and boxes don't, e.g. Sizing>Node sizing>Pan or Contrast/Pivot/etc boxes. And the sliders work once you left click on them, but the boxes don't ever work with the middle scroll, only the click and drag (which is also useful).

I can see this would be difficult in the inspector on the edit page, as the middle scroll is already acting as scroll up/down. Perhaps that is why it isn't done - to keep consistency across the pages. But it would be nice to have it on the Color page.

i prefer the old curves editor, lets you focus better on each channel curve, and the worst thing BMD did was the color we used to have under the clip icon when its graded, now we have it on the clip index number and its really small, that makes you want to open ur eyes wider to check it, sometimes i miss some shots. before it was more clear having it under the clip icon. also should add a bottom for the "match to this clip"

D-value number in parameter: 0.000 but what is unit for? PIXEL (square) or PERCENTAGE (%). please add little feature: UNIT PIXEL, (changeble) to UNIT PERCENTAGE (%), this is needs for all parameter of DAVINCI RESOLVE..please

E- I'm very annoying i active clips (window) and NODES (window) this is my needed but when i click MEDIA or EDIT from COLOR panel and return to COLOR: result closed windows: NODES, CLIPS! so i repeat re-actived NODES, CLIPS.. but how i want PIN STOP it..how? maybe is it need new feature for PIN IT after change panel? (also save my project file for next time starts my project save all my windows..?)